Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tools of their trade: instruments and other equipment devised by modern man at his technological best-backed up, hundreds of miles away, by the U.S. Air Force's well-organized supply lines and standby rescue teams. Other invaluable tools: physical courage and determination. Nothing less than courage would serve the 20 lonely men drifting in the cold Arctic Sea through 20-hour summer days and 24-hour winter nights...
...nation's population has shot ahead 37% v. 25% for the U.S., 4% for Britain, 14% for France. Its standard of living outdistances every nation's but the U.S.'s. Full of such assertive confidence, Diefenbaker intends to champion Commonwealth trade and mutual aid-and he means that Canada will provide the aid. "The question which occupies us most urgently," he said in London, "is not whether we should help less developed nations, but in what form our assistance will be most welcome...
...face and figure are unfamiliar. But this week, when the black-haired, violet-eyed beauty strides across two pages of the movie trade papers, dressed in nothing but a wet white silk shirt, Hollywood will get the word. "R.B."-the modest monogram on the shirt's breast pocket-tells it all. Russell Birdwell, Hollywood's busiest huckster, is on the job. After a brief dry spell trying to direct pictures (The Girl in the Kremlin, Flying Devils), and a few months of promoting such inanimate products as automatic laundries, "the Bird" is back at his appointed task: fabricating...
...other corporation would look small. But General Telephone is a giant in its own right. Last week it planned to grow bigger. Its directors approved a deal, subject to stockholder approval on both sides, for General Telephone to take over Sylvania Electric Products Inc. on a share-for-share trade. The result: $1.5 billion in total assets, 76,000 employees...
...Utopia; the morning rocket leaves regularly for the moon, and England's southwestern counties have been covered with concrete for the convenience of motorists. But even as the author writes, the end is in sight. A general strike is called by a fusion party of disgruntled old men, trade unionists dimly aware that their class has been milked of all intelligence capable of leadership, and upper-class women amorously alive to the proletarian athletes' big muscles. Blindly the author discounts the unrest; his publisher ends the book with a note that the writer was unable to correct proofs...